Activphysics 1

by Van Heuvelen, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780201310450
• ISBN10: 0201310457
• Edition: WORKBOOK
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Uses visualization, simulation, and multiple representation to help students become active participants in any introductory physics course

Table of Contents

Describing Motion
Analyzing Motion Using Diagrams	1.1	(1)
Analyzing Motion Using Graphs	1.2	(1)
Predicting Motion from Graphs	1.3	(1)
Predicting Motion from Equations	1.4	(1)
Problem-Solving Strategies for Kinematics	1.5	(1)
Skier Races Downhill	1.6	(1)
Balloonist Drops Lemonade	1.7	(1)
Seat Belts Save Lives	1.8	(1)
Screeching to a Halt	1.9	(1)
Pole-Vaulter Lands	1.0	(1)
Car Starts, Then Stops	1.11	(1)
Solving Two-Vehicle Problems	1.12	(1)
Car Catches Truck	1.13	(1)
Avoiding a Rear-End Collision	1.14	(1)
Forces And Motion
Qualitative Questions	2.1	(1)
Force Magnitudes	2.1.1	(1)
Skydiver	2.1.2	(1)
Tension Change	2.1.3	(1)
Sliding on an Incline	2.1.4	(1)
Car Race	2.1.5	(1)
Lifting a Crate	2.2	(1)
Lowering a Crate	2.3	(1)
Rocket Blasts Off	2.4	(1)
Truck Pulls Crate	2.5	(1)
Pushing a Crate	2.6	(1)
Pushing a Crate Up a Wall	2.7	(1)
Skier Goes Down a Slope	2.8	(1)
Skier and Rope Tow	2.9	(1)
Pushing a Crate Up an Incline	2.10	(1)
Pole-Vaulter Vaults	2.11	(1)
Truck Pulls Two Crates	2.12	(1)
Bricklayer Lowers Bricks	2.13	(1)
Modified Atwood Machine	2.14	(1)
Projectile Motion
Solving Projectile Motion Problems	3.1	(1)
Two Balls Falling	3.2	(1)
Changing the x-Velocity	3.3	(1)
Projectile x-and y-Accelerations	3.4	(1)
Initial Velocity Components	3.5	(1)
Target Practice I	3.6	(1)
Target Practice II	3.7	(1)
Gravitational Constant on Planet Zeus	3.8	(1)
Motorcycle Daredevil	3.9	(1)
Circular Motion
Determine Acceleration Direction Graphically	4.1	(1)
Acceleration Direction of a Car	4.2	(1)
Magnitude of Centripetal Acceleration	4.3	(1)
Circular Motion Problem Solving	4.4	(1)
Cart Goes Over Circular Path	4.5	(1)
Ball Swings on a String	4.6	(1)
Car Circles a Track	4.7	(1)
Satellites Orbit	4.8	(1)
Bag Hits Bystander	4.9	(1)
Work and Energy
Work Calculations	5.1	(1)
Ejector Pad	5.2	(1)
Sliding on Snow and Grass	5.3	(1)
Inventing Processes	5.4	(1)
Upward-Moving Elevator Stops	5.5	(1)
Stopping a Downward-Moving Elevator	5.6	(1)
Inverse Bungee Jumper	5.7	(1)
Spring-Launched Bowler	5.8	(1)
Skier Speed	5.9	(1)
Skier Rope Tow	5.10	(1)
Spring-Launched Ski Lift	5.11	(1)
Modified Atwood Machine	5.12	(1)
Bricklayer Perils	5.13	(1)
Cart Leaves Circular Hill	5.14	(1)
Momentum
Momentum and Energy Change	6.1	(1)
Collisions and Elasticity	6.2	(1)
Momentum Conservation and Collisions	6.3	(1)
Collision Problems	6.4	(1)
Car Collision: Two Dimensions	6.5	(1)
Saving an Astronaut	6.6	(1)
Explosion Problems	6.7	(1)
Block Sliding Down an Incline	6.8	(1)
Skier and Cart	6.9	(1)
Pendulum Bashes Box	6.10	(1)
Pendulum Person-Projectile Bowling	6.11	(1)
Rotational Motion And Statics
Torques and Statics
Calculating Torques	7.1	(1)
A Tilted Beam: Torques and Equilibrium	7.2	(1)
Arm Levers	7.3	(1)
Two Painters on a Beam	7.4	(1)
The Back	7.5	(1)
Lecturing from a Beam	7.6	(1)
Rotational Motion And Statics (Continued)
Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Rotational Inertia	7.7	(1)
Rotational Kinematics	7.8	(1)
Car ``Peels Out''	7.9	(1)
Rotoride---A Dynamics Approach	7.10	(1)
Falling Ladder	7.11	(1)
Woman and Flywheel Elevator---Dynamics Approach	7.12	(1)
Rotational Energy
Race Between a Block and a Disk	7.13	(1)
Woman and Flywheel Elevator---Energy Approach	7.14	(1)
Rotoride---Energy Approach	7.15	(1)
Angular Momentum Conservation
Ball Hits Bat	7.16	(1)
Scattering	7.17	(1)
Thermodynamics
Characteristics of a Gas	8.1	(1)
Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution---Conceptual Analysis	8.2	(1)
Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution---Quantitative Analysis	8.3	(1)
State Variables and Ideal Gas Law	8.4	(1)
Work Done By a Gas	8.5	(1)
Heat, Internal Energy, and First Law of Thermodynamics	8.6	(1)
Heat Capacity	8.7	(1)
Isochoric Process	8.8	(1)
Isobaric Process	8.9	(1)
Isothermal Process	8.10	(1)
Adiabatic Process	8.11	(1)
Cyclic Process---Strategies	8.12	(1)
Cyclic Process---Problems	8.13	(1)
Carnot Cycle	8.14	(1)
Vibrations
Position Graphs and Equations	9.1	(1)
Describing Vibrational Motion	9.2	(1)
Vibrational Energy	9.3	(1)
Two Ways to Weigh Young Tarzan	9.4	(1)
Ape Drops Tarzan	9.5	(1)
Releasing a Vibrating Skier I	9.6	(1)
Releasing a Vibrating Skier II	9.7	(1)
One-and Two-Spring Vibrating Systems	9.8	(1)
Vibro-Ride	9.9	(1)
Pendulum Frequency	9.10	(1)
Pendulum Timer	9.11	(1)
Risky Pendulum Walk	9.12	(1)
Physical Pendulum	9.13	(1)
The Sweet Spot	9.14	(1)
Waves
Properties of Mechanical Waves	10.1	(1)
Speed of Waves on a String	10.2	(1)
Speed of Sound in a Gas	10.3	(1)
Standing Waves on Strings	10.4	(1)
Tuning a Stringed Instrument: Standing Waves	10.5	(1)
String Mass and Standing Waves	10.6	(1)
Beats and Beat frequency	10.7	(1)
Doppler Effect: Conceptual Introduction	10.8	(1)
Doppler Effect: Problems	10.9	(1)
Complex Waves: Fourier Analysis	10.10